Join Ideos Institute and the National Institute for Civil Discourse on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 for the 3rd in our 6-part series, Dialogue, Difference and Democracy, a series that brings together experts in the field of dialogue to promote practices, norms, and tools related to democracy promotion, social cohesion, conflict transformation, and human flourishing.
Leading this seminar will be Yordanos Eyeol, an Ethiopian-American democracy entrepreneur who is the Founder and CEO of Keseb, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization building an ecosystem for cross-country learning, collaboration and innovation to advance inclusive and resilient democracies.
Before launching Keseb in 2022, Yordanos was recognized with the “Extraordinary Leader Transforming a Field” award by Unorthodox Philanthropy and served as a Managing Partner at New Profit. In 2019, Yordanos founded New Profit's Civic Lab, the first nonpartisan venture philanthropy initiative in the U.S. to invest in innovative solutions building civic trust and a strong civic culture in America.
Yordanos holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Florida, where she was inducted into the University Hall of Fame. She also holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. Yordanos is the 2020 recipient of the City of Boston Spark Impact Award for Activism and Issue Advocacy.
You can download Keseb’s latest report, Defending and Strengthening Diverse Democracies, here.